On Wed, Nov 10/99, Crysarra de'Danaan <lucretia_71@...> wrote:

> From: Crysarra de'Danaan <lucretia_71@...>
>
> a few words here...
> bard= jack of all trades, master of none

Dispite the fact that this tired old adage is dragged out every time
this debate comes up, did you ever stop to actually think what jack
means? Up until it's use on this list it used to mean relatively good at
something as compared to true master. Are you claiming that bard's
foraging and hiding skills could be called relatively good? If so, would
that be relative to someone who had none at all or to someone who was
relatively bad?

As EQ has seen fit to redefine master as 101 out of a possible 200-255
skill it's important we have a clear understanding of relatively good.

I think it would be interesting to get a list poll up to see how many
bards on the list actually use forage or hide, or even have them in
their hotkeys. We'd have to have a seperate section for wood elf bards
as the wood elf natural cap is actually 10 higher than the default
bard's (hmm, another contradiction to the jack of foraging idea)

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